November 16, 2013
These vegan blueberry waffles are created with whole grain products and additional ripe bananas for any sweet treat that tastes like blueberry bread, in waffle form!
I learned something about vegan baking when developing this recipe. Maybe &"learned&" isn’t the best word. A lot more like &"experienced firsthand&" or &"created a complete understanding&"? I’ve used bananas instead of eggs in vegan baking for some time. Actually, the simple banana is most likely the very first egg substitute I ever utilized in my vegan baking. For anybody studying this who's a new comer to vegan baking, you may also use commercial egg substitutes, vegan yogurt, and flax or chia seeds combined with water, amongst other things. Each functions a little differently though, serving another eggy purpose, as they say. What this recipe trained me was how bananas really provide your vegan baked goods an eggy texture.
I suppose things i’m saying is the fact that these waffles, although vegan, are eggy. They've the feel of similar some non-vegan waffles having a high egg content. Very moist and fluffy. It was an entirely unpredicted surprise. I suppose in many of my earlier blueberry-based vegan baking, I simply put the bananas inside, the recipe switched out as planned, therefore i assumed the bananas used to do their job (and accordingly, the recipe would not have switched out absent the bananas).
I produced these by adapting my recipe for Vegan Wheat Grains Cherry Almond Waffles. which, should you attempted them out, you realize are some of the hearty, sturdy number of waffles, along with some crunch. Would that end up like a Belgian waffle? I don’t know. However these waffles, however, are soft and moist. Scrumptious, however for an entirely different reason.
One factor to bear in mind regarding these waffles is they aren’t prone to keep in addition to crunchier, sturdier waffles. I didn’t attempt to store leftovers, actually, I'd some buddies over for brunch so we gobbled all of them up, however i don’t imagine these might have maintained a lot of their structural integrity during the day two. I cut lower around the batch size since developing my former waffle recipe, however this still makes a number of waffles, so half it if necessary.
Notice I didn’t add any sweetener towards the batter? These waffles don’t require it. The bananas make sure they are plenty sweet. Actually, have a bite before you decide to pour any walnut syrup in it. You simply might choose to skip it instead of extra blueberry slices and walnuts (oh so great).
